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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. What a story or play is about.






2. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






3. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






4. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






5. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






6. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






7. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






8. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






9. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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10. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






11. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






12. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






13. Broken down acts.






14. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






15. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






16. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






17. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






18. A strong pause within a line.






19. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






20. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






21. A three-line stanza.






22. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






23. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






24. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






25. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






26. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






27. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






28. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






29. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






30. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






31. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






32. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






33. A four line stanza in a poem.






34. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






35. The person who 'tells' the story.






36. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






37. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






38. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






39. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






40. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






41. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






42. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






43. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






44. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






45. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






46. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






47. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






48. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






49. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






50. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.







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